1. Overlaid, spread, topped with, or enclosed within something
   "women with covered faces"

1. Provide with a covering or cause to be covered
   "cover the grave with flowers"; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"
    
2. Form a cover over
   "The grass covered the grave";
   - spread over
    
3. Span an interval of distance, space or time
   "The period covered the turn of the century"; "This farm covers some 200 acres";
   - continue, extend
    
4. Include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory
   "this should cover everyone in the group";
   - embrace, encompass, comprehend
    
5. Provide for
   "The grant doesn't cover my salary"
    
6. Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
   "The course covered all of Western Civilization";
   - treat, handle, plow [N. Amer], deal, address, plough [Brit, Cdn]
    
7. Spread over a surface to conceal or protect
   "This paint covers well"
    
8. Put something on top of something else
   "cover the meat with a lot of gravy";
   - overlay
    
9. Conceal something illegal, scandalous or embarrassing
   "The President covered the fact that he bugged the offices in the White House"; "The company tried to cover up the accounting fraud";
   - cover up
    
10. Clothe, as if for protection from the elements
    "cover your head!";
    - wrap up
     
11. To take an action to protect against future problems
    "Count the cash in the drawer twice just to cover yourself"
     
12. Be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism
    "The cub reporter covered New York City";
    - report
     
13. Protect or defend (a position in a game)
    "he covered left field"
     
14. Be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game
    "She covered the opposing team's best player throughout the match"
     
15. Maintain a check on; especially by patrolling
    "The second officer covered the top floor"
     
16. Be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of
    "Is this enough to cover the check?"
     
17. Protect by insurance
    "The insurance won't cover this";
    - insure, underwrite
     
18. Help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming their responsibilities
    "She is covering for our secretary who is ill this week"
     
19. Hold within range of an aimed firearm
    "The sniper covered the entrance"
     
20. Travel across or pass over
    "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day";
    - traverse, track, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
     
21. Make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
    "he is covering for being a bad father";
    - compensate, overcompensate
     
22. Invest with a large or excessive amount of something
    "She covered herself with glory"
     
23. Cover as if with a shroud
    "The origins of this civilization are covered in mystery";
    - shroud, enshroud, hide
     
24. (animal husbandry) copulate with a female, used especially of horses
    "The horse covers the mare";
    - breed
     
25. (card game) play a higher card than the one previously played
    "Smith covered again"
     
26. Sit on (eggs)
    "The female covers the eggs";
    - brood, hatch, incubate

See also: ariled, arillate, awninged, beaded, blanketed, canopied, cloaked, clothed, crusted, crustlike, crusty, dabbled, draped, drenched, drenched in, dust-covered, dusty, encrusted, mantled, moon-splashed, moss-grown, mossy, mud-beplastered, muffled, overgrown, peritrichous, plastered, sealed, smothered, snow-clad, snow-covered, snowy, spattered, splashed, splashy, splattered, sun-drenched, thick-spread, tiled, white, wrapped

Type of: act, adjoin, apparel [archaic], ascertain, be, broach, check, clothe, compensate, conceal, contact, copulate, correct, counterbalance, couple, deputise [Brit], deputize, dress, empower, enclose, enclothe [rare], endow, endue [archaic], enfold, ensure, envelop, enwrap, even off, even out, even up, fit out, fulfil [Brit, Cdn], fulfill [N. Amer], garb, garment, gift, guarantee, habilitate [archaic], hide, include, indue, inform, initiate, insure, invest, lay, live up to, make certain, make sure, make up, mate, meet, move, multiply, pair, pass, place, play, pose, position, procreate, protect, put, raiment [archaic], reproduce, satisfy, see, set, step in, sub [informal], substitute, tog [informal], touch, warrant, wrap

Antonym: bare, expose

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